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2:15 PM ET, November 10, 2010

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Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35 Percent in Third Quarter 2010; Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Percent — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner …

Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:

One in Five Mobiles Sold Are Smartphones (One in Four Run Android) — Year-over-year smartphone sales are up 98% worldwide. Over 80 million of the over 400 million handsets sold in the third quarter were smartphones. — The sheer growth of the global market and the meteoric rise …

Discussion: Motorola Media Center, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Fast Company, SAI, Reuters, Eurodroid, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, Fortune, HEXUS.channel and Androinica

Bloomberg:

RIM to Sell Tablet for Less Than $500 to Take On IPad — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., moving into the tablet-computer market for the first time, said it will begin selling its BlackBerry PlayBook for less than $500, suggesting RIM may try to undercut Apple Inc.'s iPad.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
RIM's Playbook: Pricing under $500 and a big bet on Flash

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, BGR, Gearlog and SAI

Henry Blodget / SAI:

Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise — Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash “holiday bonuses” and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us. — The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 2011.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Responds To Bonus/Raise Story, Cites Importance Of “Competitive Compensation”

Discussion: SAI and NBC Bay Area

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Rumor: Apple Has Cancelled Support for AirPrint Through Mac and Windows — Update: Unlike many other blogs that linked to this post claim, the rumor isn't about AirPrint being cancelled. It's about AirPrint through shared printers on Macs and PCs. — When Apple released the first beta …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Fortune, MacRumors, App Advice, Computerworld, GigaOM, Erictric, SlashGear, AppleInsider, V3.co.uk, BlogsDNA, BGR, Fonehome.co.uk, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, TeleRead, I4U News, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, everythingiCafe, Black Web 2.0, Phones Review, PalmAddicts and Go Rumors

Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
iOS 4.2 to launch Friday?

Discussion: Redmond Pie, Engadget, App Advice, Pocket-lint, O'Grady's PowerPage, Neowin.net and Softpedia News

Scott Moritz / The Street:

Microsoft Sells 40K Windows 7 Phones — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — As big-splash debuts go, Microsoft's(MSFT_) Windows Phone 7 launch at AT&T(T_) and T-Mobile didn't exactly make waves Monday. Even with a glitzy media intro last month hosted by champion inside-seller and company chief Steve Ballmer …

OLED-DISPLAY.NET:

First picture of 7 inch Super-Amoled from Samsung Mobile Display — OLED-Display.net got the first picture of the Galaxy-Tab with the brand new 7 inch Super-Amoled. showcased at the FPD-International event. The panel has a WXVGA (1200x600 Pixel) resolution.Samsung Mobile Display plans to sell this panel in 2011.

Discussion: netbooknews.com, AndroidSPIN, The Toybox Blog, BGR, GottaBeMobile, OLED TV Display Lighting …, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, The Android Phone, Pocket-lint and Engadget

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck

Discussion: Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball and Electronista

Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:

Microsoft is in the driver's seat for Windows Phone updates — One of the biggest criticisms of Windows Mobile and Android devices is that device manufacturers get control over who gets updated versions of the OS. That leads to awkward situations where someone pays big bucks …

Discussion: IntoMobile, Electronista, Gadget Lab, Softpedia News, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Thoughts from the Sidelines, HEXUS.channel and winextra

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Microsoft Flashes A Nice Big Middle Finger At Android's Fragmentation

New York Times:

Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy — WASHINGTON — After “do not call” lists became popular, more than 90 percent of people who signed up reported fewer annoying telemarketing calls. Now, privacy advocates are pushing for a similar “do not track” feature that would let Internet users tell Web sites …

Discussion: Switched, Company Town and Screenwerk, more at Mediagazer »

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

FarmVille is Still the Most Popular Facebook App - But #2 is a Surprise — Over 16 million people watered their FarmVille crops yesterday. While AppData's Facebook app top 10 is mostly populated by games like Zynga's popular farming game, Texas HoldEm Poker, FrontierVille and Café World …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Inside Facebook

Joab Jackson / ITworld:

Apache declares war on Oracle over Java — The Apache Software Foundation threatens to ditch Java if Oracle doesn't relent on use restrictions — I like it! — Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation …

Discussion: eWeek, Ars Technica, ASF Blogs, Network World, InfoQ, Techie Buzz and The Register

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:

Fanboy Fascination: Is Andreessen Horowitz Overhyped? — Social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School recently produced some interesting research suggesting that people are highly likely to see someone as competent if they've demonstrated expertise in just one area, even if they later display incompetence elsewhere.

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

Google Warns Facebook Users of “Trap” Before Data Export — If you hadn't yet heard, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle this past week over your data by two Internet giants - Facebook and Google. It started when Google began blocking other services from importing its data without reciprocity, a move aimed directly at Facebook.

Discussion: Digital Trends, The Not-So Private Parts, The Register, Digitizor, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, GigaOM, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Epicenter, Webomatica and The Next Web, Thanks:rwwmike

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Hulu CEO: We'll make $240M in 2010 — Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar shared some numbers today to show where the online TV service stood at the end of October. — The service launched its beta test almost exactly three years ago, so while the service is relatively early, Kilar said …

Discussion: TechCrunch, GigaOM and Mashable!

Apple:

Apple & The Dentsu Group Bring iAds to Japan — Apple® and The Dentsu Group today announced a partnership to expand Apple's iAd℠ mobile advertising network to Japan in early 2011. Dentsu will be responsible for the selling and creative execution of iAds in Japan, and Apple will host …

Discussion: CNET News, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, MacRumors, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Gearlog, AppleInsider and MacStories

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Livestream For Facebook Lets You DIY Live Stream Video On Fan Pages — Livestream, the live video streaming service that has hooked up with Facebook in the past for Facebook Live, is launching another partnership with the social networking giant. From today onward brands with a Facebook fan page …

Eddie Codel / jibber jabber: The Current State of Live Video Streaming

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

[UPDATE: Confirmed] Exclusive: Yahoo to Name Time Inc. Top Exec Powers as Head of U.S. Sales — Yahoo, in a quick move after the recent hiring of U.S. head Ross Levinsohn, will bring in Wayne Powers, who is currently president of Time Inc.'s Media Group, as head of North American advertising sales, according to sources.

Discussion: AdAge, paidContent, The Tape, SiliconANGLE and ClickZ

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Give Us Our Data, Facebook — I usually give Facebook the benefit of the doubt in its various wars with the press and users, particularly around privacy issues. Mostly because user expectations around privacy are changing in real time. Things that were reprehensible just a couple …

Discussion: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Stay N' Alive, Softpedia News and Webomatica

Inside AdSense:

Introducing the new AdSense interface, now available globally — Last November we announced that we were starting to test a new interface with a limited group of publishers. Since then, we've been focused on adding new features and incorporating feedback from our testers.

Discussion: Mashable!, TechCrunch, The Official Google Blog, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Adotas, Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Journal

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Yahoo's Informal Offer To Buy Groupon: $3 Billion To $4 Billion — Yahoo made it known to Groupon executives and backers that it was willing to pay as much as $3 billion to $4 billion to acquire the company, a source close to Groupon investors tells us. — That number may seem high, but our source is reliable.

Discussion: GMSV, Tech Trader Daily, MediaPost and NBC Bay Area

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